Mishka Rushdie Momen’s debut Hyperion album ‘Reformation’ topped the UK Classical Chart, persuading critics and listeners worldwide to embrace the rich sonorities of a modern grand piano in early works written originally for harpsichord. With Hall of Mirrors, Mishka turns from England to France and jumps forward two generations to the court of Louis XIV and in particular to the music of Versailles. Here we encounter music by two of the greats—François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau—alongside an extended suite by the rather less well-known Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, described by contemporary writers as ‘the marvel of our age’.

The latest in Hyperion’s series of limited-edition boxed-sets brings us to The Complete Violin Sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Recorded by Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, this multi-award-winning set of 10 CDs comes with comprehensive commentaries from Misha Donat. ‘If ever a Mozart recording were self-recommending, this is it’ (BBC Music Magazine).

This month sees the release of a further three albums in Hyperion’s Vinyl Edition. All are new to vinyl and feature some of the artists with whom the label has enjoyed particularly close or long-standing associations over the years. They are released as limited-edition 180g LPs, presented in full-colour gatefolds and with sleeve notes included.

Steven Osborne’s 2013 recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures from an exhibition & Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives won that year’s Gramophone Instrumental Award: ‘This may well be the most lucid and musicianly “Pictures” on record. Hyperion’s sound and presentation are beyond praise.’ Similarly ecstatic reviews greeted Marc-André Hamelin’s recording of Chopin Piano Sonatas Nos 2 and 3. Marc’s first (and thus far only) all-Chopin album united and surprised critics across the world as poetry combined with Hamelin’s superhuman virtuosity, The Sunday Times noting that ‘Hamelin, a poet among virtuosos, brings sensibility and a brilliant technique in equal measure to this oft-recorded music. Spellbinding.’ And from 1987 we have a chance to join Gillian Fisher and Michael Chance as they get straight to the soul of the glorious Pergolesi Stabat mater. This seminal album from The King’s Consort was hailed by Gramophone as being ‘so greatly superior to all previous recordings of Pergolesi’s deathbed Stabat mater as to put the others completely out of the running’.

Three new releases from Signum Classics this month bring us a devastating fourth instalment in the Sturm und Drang series from The Mozartists and conductor Ian Page (soprano Alexandra Lowe’s visceral incarnation of Georg Benda’s Medea a never-to-be-forgotten highlight). Nigel Short and Tenebrae mark 25 years of a remarkable choir with The journey, new recordings of some of the finest works discovered over the intervening years and with a focus on quiet but always active reflection. And a new EP from Alexander Chapman Campbell Towards peace presents four of this composer’s piano miniatures.

Mishka Rushdie Momen’s debut Hyperion album ‘Reformation’ topped the UK Classical Chart, persuading critics and listeners worldwide to embrace the rich sonorities of a modern grand piano in early works written originally for harpsichord. With Hall of Mirrors, Mishka turns from England to France and jumps forward two generations to the court of Louis XIV and in particular to the music of Versailles. Here we encounter music by two of the greats—François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau—alongside an extended suite by the rather less well-known Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, described by contemporary writers as ‘the marvel of our age’.

The latest in Hyperion’s series of limited-edition boxed-sets brings us to The Complete Violin Sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Recorded by Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, this multi-award-winning set of 10 CDs comes with comprehensive commentaries from Misha Donat. ‘If ever a Mozart recording were self-recommending, this is it’ (BBC Music Magazine).

This month sees the release of a further three albums in Hyperion’s Vinyl Edition. All are new to vinyl and feature some of the artists with whom the label has enjoyed particularly close or long-standing associations over the years. They are released as limited-edition 180g LPs, presented in full-colour gatefolds and with sleeve notes included.

Steven Osborne’s 2013 recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures from an exhibition & Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives won that year’s Gramophone Instrumental Award: ‘This may well be the most lucid and musicianly “Pictures” on record. Hyperion’s sound and presentation are beyond praise.’ Similarly ecstatic reviews greeted Marc-André Hamelin’s recording of Chopin Piano Sonatas Nos 2 and 3. Marc’s first (and thus far only) all-Chopin album united and surprised critics across the world as poetry combined with Hamelin’s superhuman virtuosity, The Sunday Times noting that ‘Hamelin, a poet among virtuosos, brings sensibility and a brilliant technique in equal measure to this oft-recorded music. Spellbinding.’ And from 1987 we have a chance to join Gillian Fisher and Michael Chance as they get straight to the soul of the glorious Pergolesi Stabat mater. This seminal album from The King’s Consort was hailed by Gramophone as being ‘so greatly superior to all previous recordings of Pergolesi’s deathbed Stabat mater as to put the others completely out of the running’.

Three new releases from Signum Classics this month bring us a devastating fourth instalment in the Sturm und Drang series from The Mozartists and conductor Ian Page (soprano Alexandra Lowe’s visceral incarnation of Georg Benda’s Medea a never-to-be-forgotten highlight). Nigel Short and Tenebrae mark 25 years of a remarkable choir with The journey, new recordings of some of the finest works discovered over the intervening years and with a focus on quiet but always active reflection. And a new EP from Alexander Chapman Campbell Towards peace presents four of this composer’s piano miniatures.

Mishka Rushdie Momen’s debut Hyperion album ‘Reformation’ topped the UK Classical Chart, persuading critics and listeners worldwide to embrace the rich sonorities of a modern grand piano in early works written originally for harpsichord. With Hall of Mirrors, Mishka turns from England to France and jumps forward two generations to the court of Louis XIV and in particular to the music of Versailles. Here we encounter music by two of the greats—François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau—alongside an extended suite by the rather less well-known Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, described by contemporary writers as ‘the marvel of our age’.

The latest in Hyperion’s series of limited-edition boxed-sets brings us to The Complete Violin Sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Recorded by Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, this multi-award-winning set of 10 CDs comes with comprehensive commentaries from Misha Donat. ‘If ever a Mozart recording were self-recommending, this is it’ (BBC Music Magazine).

This month sees the release of a further three albums in Hyperion’s Vinyl Edition. All are new to vinyl and feature some of the artists with whom the label has enjoyed particularly close or long-standing associations over the years. They are released as limited-edition 180g LPs, presented in full-colour gatefolds and with sleeve notes included.

Steven Osborne’s 2013 recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures from an exhibition & Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives won that year’s Gramophone Instrumental Award: ‘This may well be the most lucid and musicianly “Pictures” on record. Hyperion’s sound and presentation are beyond praise.’ Similarly ecstatic reviews greeted Marc-André Hamelin’s recording of Chopin Piano Sonatas Nos 2 and 3. Marc’s first (and thus far only) all-Chopin album united and surprised critics across the world as poetry combined with Hamelin’s superhuman virtuosity, The Sunday Times noting that ‘Hamelin, a poet among virtuosos, brings sensibility and a brilliant technique in equal measure to this oft-recorded music. Spellbinding.’ And from 1987 we have a chance to join Gillian Fisher and Michael Chance as they get straight to the soul of the glorious Pergolesi Stabat mater. This seminal album from The King’s Consort was hailed by Gramophone as being ‘so greatly superior to all previous recordings of Pergolesi’s deathbed Stabat mater as to put the others completely out of the running’.

Three new releases from Signum Classics this month bring us a devastating fourth instalment in the Sturm und Drang series from The Mozartists and conductor Ian Page (soprano Alexandra Lowe’s visceral incarnation of Georg Benda’s Medea a never-to-be-forgotten highlight). Nigel Short and Tenebrae mark 25 years of a remarkable choir with The journey, new recordings of some of the finest works discovered over the intervening years and with a focus on quiet but always active reflection. And a new EP from Alexander Chapman Campbell Towards peace presents four of this composer’s piano miniatures.